New FTLs
This has been coming for years. I was at a BALPA conference years ago, when the then EU Raporteur was presdent to "discuss" the planned EU FTLs. His view, when asked why they coudn't be based on Science, was to effectively say, "You may as well accept you won't get plan A, but let's do a bit of haggling & you may get Plan B. No idea at all of the issues involved.
He was invited to join a crew for a long duty, to experience it first hand; he laughed.
Last week the BBC allocated 1 hour to a File on Four documenatary (repeated this Sunday) on the politicisation of accident reports in 3rd world countries. Later in the week, the UCL study on pilot fatigue produced by BALPA got a 2 minute mention in the morning news.
The esatablishment does not understand nor wish to understand the real issues that are invovled in this subject. Nor many of the other issues that surround large corporate influence & weak regulation.